Olympia Snowe

[itshappening]

this stupid bitch is talking to the Whitehouse again about a public option, when the hell are the Republicans going to throw her out? she voted with the Democrats over the stimulas, she is basically a liberal Democrat. She must be tossed out and made an example of. she is NO Republican


http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/96d44406-98b3-11de-aa1b-00144feabdc0.html

[Epic]

She demonstrates how totalitarian/leftist the Republicans have become. Specter did too, before he switched.

[LittleLightShining]

Someone in my GOP committee suggested having her come to speak at a fundraiser. People snorkeled in behind hands at this suggestion. I said, "But she's not even really a Republican." After the meeting I was taken aside by the chair and informed that it is inappropriate for someone on the executive committee to criticize other Republicans.

[james1906]

They ridiculed RP for not being a 'true' Republican, yet Snowe gets away scot-free. The GOP is in shambles

[LittleLightShining]

They ridiculed RP for not being a 'true' Republican, yet Snowe gets away scot-free. The GOP is in shambles

My thoughts exactly. I bit my tongue, though. No need to start a fight. Plus the more they say the more they show themselves to others-- and the more others recognize it and make comments to me about it.

[Pennsylvania]

She co-sponsored the Cybersecurity Act as well. What a failure. Cool name though.

[Feenix566]

Anyone can join either party. Nobody can kick Snowe out of the Republican party. The only thing they can do is *not* donate to her re-election campaign.

Or hold a 23-senator fundraiser for her primary opponent...

[erowe1]

They ridiculed RP for not being a 'true' Republican, yet Snowe gets away scot-free. The GOP is in shambles

Snowe and RP are nothing alike. She gets off scot-free because she's being in every way a true representative of the GOP, which at its core is and always has been a pro-big government, pro-socialism, pro-fascism organization. Ron Paul was ridiculed for being the opposite of that.

[acptulsa]

Snowe and RP are nothing alike. She gets off scot-free because she's being in every way a true representative of the GOP, which at its core is and always has been a pro-big government, pro-socialism, pro-fascism organization. Ron Paul was ridiculed for being the opposite of that.

'Always'? Careful, now. William Taft was a large man; get him rolling over in his grave and he could create an earthquake.

[Feenix566]

Snowe and RP are nothing alike. She gets off scot-free because she's being in every way a true representative of the GOP, which at its core is and always has been a pro-big government, pro-socialism, pro-fascism organization. Ron Paul was ridiculed for being the opposite of that.

The Republican Party is a big tent. It is composed of millions of individuals, each with their own view. No one in the party can claim to be the voice of everyone else, despite what the collectivist media would like to believe. Ron Paul's positions and Olympia Snowe's positions are both just as valid as John McCain's positions. The only difference is that McCain won the presidential primary and Paul and Snowe didn't.

Most politicians in both parties are soulless whores who will say and do whatever they think will get them re-elected. That's just how politics works. It's natural selection at it's best. Whoever tells the people what they want to hear the best wins the election. Olympia Snowe is no exception.

The only way to create real change in this country is to change what the people want to hear.

[erowe1]

'Always'? Careful, now. William Taft was a large man; get him rolling over in his grave and he could create an earthquake.

William Taft was a big government guy. Robert Taft wasn't. But the party went out of its way to shut him down and succeeded three times. Coolidge was good, but he only made it into the WH by Harding dying. Goldwater did manage to beat the establishment and win the nomination, as did Reagan after losing to them once. But those are aberrations that the party establishment resisted. Alan Stang is right. The GOP was "Red from the Start."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan30.htm

Snow fits right in. RP doesn't.

[acptulsa]

The only way to create real change in this country is to change what the people want to hear.

Well then. I guess we owe the bastard robber barons for getting way, way too damned greedy for their own good, don't we?

[erowe1]

The only difference is that McCain won the presidential primary and Paul and Snowe didn't.

That's true. But if you think that the path to a party's nomination is determined by millions of people with equal shares of influence, then you obviously aren't very deeply involved in politics. McCain was the party's pick (and by "the party" I don't mean millions of people, I mean a core group of individuals) and entered the race as the presumptive nominee. He started out with the bulk of the endorsements, and the bulk of the connections to key donors. Even after his campaign imploded and went almost broke in the Summer of 2007 he came back and won, despite being supposedly anathema to these millions of "conservatives" who comprise the GOP base.

[Feenix566]

That's true. But if you think that the path to a party's nomination is determined by millions of people with equal shares of influence, then you obviously aren't very deeply involved in politics. McCain was the party's pick (and by "the party" I don't mean millions of people, I mean a core group of individuals) and entered the race as the presumptive nominee. He started out with the bulk of the endorsements, and the bulk of the connections to key donors. Even after his campaign imploded and went almost broke in the Summer of 2007 he came back and won, despite being supposedly anathema to these millions of "conservatives" who comprise the GOP base.

I'm not disagreeing with any of that.

[catdd]

She's a Republican in name only just like Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker in Tn.

Republic-rats